Category Archives: Grade 4

Code Mobile group came yesterday to teach some grade 4s and 5s about coding.
Code Mobile is a non-profit government organization that provides free coding workshops to children and teens across Montreal. Their aim is to get young learners excited about coding and to develop knowledge of technology, particularly in elementary-aged youth and girls.
Our students had an amazing time yesterday using Scratch Coding Software to learn about programming algorithms and to create digital and interactive artwork.
The Scratch software is available for free online and many students went home yesterday night to continue working with the software.
Thank you to Jayne Mandat and Rosana Montoute for providing each student with their own Macbook Pro to use and for guiding the Code Mobile workshop.

For Remembrance Day Grade 4 students learned all about the famous “unlucky” plane from WW2, named Friday the 13th. The students spoke about superstitions and learned that the plane was painted with different superstitions to help reverse the bad luck that cursed the Halifax planes. The plane was painted with an upside-down horseshoe, a ladder the crew had to walk under every time they boarded the plane and even a skull and cross bones! It worked! The plane flew 128 missions and is in the Yorkshire museum. The students learned about the crew and they were even able to try on a real RCAF uniform from a crew member that was onboard Friday the 13th!

Grade 4 students are learning about angles and met with our angle sergeant!!! The students learned to stand at attention at a right angle, acute angle and obtuse angle! They also can chant a little “everywhere we go, people wanna know…” about parallel and perpendicular lines!

Grade 4 has gone BATTY! The students created bats/batwings that would either land in a target ( the batcave) or fly the longest distance. Each student was given paper (the bat), tape and scissors. The creations were fantastic!#westparkisfullSTEAMahead

Grade four worked on patchwork with Elyse De Lafontaine, a local artist, yesterday. The students made their designs, then the templates, and finally they made the actual works of arts. With a lot of hard work and concentration we had some fantastic artists present in class today!